Local Briefs

September 10, 2007|Staff Reports

SOUTH BENDTwo teenagers injured intervening in fight A South Bend 18-year-old and an Osceola 18-year-old were both treated at a local hospital Saturday night after they were stabbed while intervening in a fight. The teenagers were sitting on the porch of a home in the 400 block of South Chicago Street about 11 p.m. Saturday when they saw a man and woman fighting in the street. The report said when they went to intervene the man cut them with box cutters. Police arrested a 31-year-old. SOUTH BENDPair arrested in theft of purse on Western Two people were arrested Sunday morning after a woman's purse was stolen. A police report said the 24-year-old woman told them one man held her while the other took her purse in the 1900 block of West Western Avenue about 1 a.m. Sunday. An 18-year-old and a 19-year-old were arrested. EDWARDSBURGDrowned man's body recovered from lake Police dive teams Sunday afternoon recovered the body of a man who drowned in Long Lake in Union. A news release from the Cass County Sheriff's Office said the body of Thomas Wozniak Jr. was recovered by dive teams from Cass and Berrien counties.